April 9, 2025 • 21 mins
Today on the show Loren gets into the latest episode of RHOA, which also happens to be Kenya's last episode after exposing a woman's sexual vulnerability on the show. Some fans are protesting about Bravo's network decision. Loren also speaks on Lizzo's recent interview with Jay Shetty, where she opened up about being a dark space at one time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Choice. I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
everything and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren came in hot. All righty y'all, we are back.
Agame We are in week two of the latest with
Lauren the Road the podcast and you know, a daily podcast.
It's a hustle, it's a grind. But I mean, this
is what I do. I literally sit on my phone
(01:07):
live and breathe, text, talk, call, reach out, email about
you know, entertainment, news and pop culture stuff all day
long up until a certain point. I will cut it
off at some point because I'd be like, all right,
I gotta eat, I gotta you know what I mean.
But I mean I say that to say it's ongoing,
so this is not hard to do. What has been
the challenge in this new phase in life with dropping
the podcast and you know us rolling out the Ladies
(01:30):
with Laura la Rosa, the breakfast club iteration of it,
and I do a show with BT called BT Talks,
has been balance of life. My mom called me today
and she was like, hey, what you doing for She
called me twice and I was on a zoom call
with my assistant and I answered and I'm like, hey, mam,
you alright And she was like, yeah, I'm fine, what
you're doing. You don't call me no more? And I'm like,
(01:51):
that's the third time. She told me that this week
and the way I'm set up with my mom and
my grandmam, I talk to them every single day. If
they don't hear from me, they're like, what the hell
is going on? Sometimes my grandmother will be like, oh,
she's busy, So she'll call my mom and be like, oh,
did you talk to Lolo? That's my family nickname, So
y'all family now, because y'all don't y'all know my nickname.
She'd be like, hey, have you talked the Lolo? And
my mom will tell her like, oh, yeah, I talk
(02:12):
to her. She was doing such and such and such
and such. So my grandma would just let it rock
because she's like, yo, you're running around, you doing so much.
My mom ain't letting nothing rock at all. She want
all the smoke. She wants to talk to me every day.
She wants to know why she's not talking to me
every day. She wants to know, you know, if I'm
doing all this work, am I being paid with the coin?
Looking like baby Lois? That's my mom's name. She don't
(02:34):
play no games at all. But I think, you know,
I've been thinking a lot about today, just feeling kind
of guilty for that, and guilty for the fact that
just within his last two weeks, my time, this last
couple of months, my time has changed because I'm getting
busier and things are moving, and I just wanted to
be moved slow about it and take on one project
at a time and then bring other things in. And
(02:56):
then now everything kind of hit at once. Everything I
was slowly taking on that one time. It's like it's
all it's all on the table, and we ain't even
nothing on the table. We ain't living, no money on
the table. So you know, I'm here and I'm doing it.
But I'm not able to go home to Delaware and
just sit and play cards and eat crabs with my
grandmom as much as I was before. I can't sit
on the phone on the phone all day with my
(03:17):
mom as much as I was doing before. And I
know that they have such a dependency on me, especially
because I'm my mom and my grandmother's caretaker. So even
though I don't live in Delaware, me my brother, we
make sure that they're straight, they're older, they've both gone
through health stuff, so there is a really strong dependency there,
especially because of their age, but especially because you know,
(03:37):
like medically. They've just been through things where it's helping
that we me and my brother know more than they
do right now. So you know, I'm making sure you know,
they're eating how they're supposed to eat. They got help
in the home. The homes are being cleaned and all
that good stuff, even when I can't be there. So
that's that's what I've been figuring out so much of.
(03:58):
But you know, just feeling guilty and I can't show
up and do those things myself anymore. As much as
I used to cooking the dinner, hanging out, just playing cards,
just chilling. I'd rather be there and get yelled at
about not spend enough time than being asked when are
you coming back, and it's like, oh my god, and yeah.
So when my mom called me and said that today,
I was like, oh, I was feeling good because today
was my first day. We're all like up. It energized
(04:20):
and I slept early last night. And then she called
me and I'm like, but it's still not enough. I
gotta figure out the balance of life now and work.
So personally, that's some of the things that I, you know, today,
have been dealing with. But I am more refreshed, so
at least I have the clear space of mine to
do so, so I thank God for that. But we
gonna get on into some stories. It's Laura l Rosa.
(04:41):
This is the latest with Laura l Rosa. And you
guys know, despite whatever is happening in my life, whether
I'm figuring out family, work, whatever, I'm always gonna be
the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and
everybody and what I don't know, baby, I will pick
up the phone, reach out and figure it out. Okay,
so let's get on into some things up. First, I
wanted to talk about Real Housewives of Atlanta, and I
(05:04):
just fresh off of watching the new episode of Real
Housewives of Atlanta. The episode is called is titled about
last Night. Now, for those of you guys who are
Real Housewives fans, you'll know that we were waiting, all
of the Real Housewives of Atlanta fans were waiting for this
episode because this is the episode that is Kenya Moore's
(05:25):
last episode for season sixteen, unless well for season sixteen
for sure and potentially in the franchise, unless she decides
to come back or they allow her back, like we
still don't know the answer to that. So on about
last night this episode. The main focus of this episode
news wise has been the fact that this was Kenya
Moore's last episode for the season. The reason why this
(05:46):
was our last episode is because Kenyamore opened the Kenyamore Hairspot.
She owned Kenya Moore hair care product line and decided
to put it in the actual hairspot in Atlanta where
you could come get your hair done. You know, all
the all the spa things, but it's all based around
her product. So during this episode and at the opening
(06:06):
of that spa, her and another girl from the show,
a girl named Brittany who is a newcomer to the show.
Y'all know, Kenya Moore is a OG. She's been there
since the original Real Housewives of Atlanta days, back when
Nini was there and all that good of stuff. So
of course, when you are the OG on a you know,
a show, a reality show like Real Housewives, the new
girls gotta come for you. It's kind of like a
rite of passage. It shows how they can hang or
(06:27):
if they can't, you know what I'm saying, And it
also can elevate their peach or lack thereof. So they're
at the hairspot opening, and Kenya and this girl, Brittany
have actually had a very weird exchange the episode prior
the episode prior that at this like special dinner thing,
and you know, they kind of get into it over
(06:47):
a question that was asked her on like a round
table type game, and you know, Brittany begins to talk
about when they're leaving out after they've gotten into a
Brittany mentions like a pistol and some whips that she
owned that she you know, she still be packing and
ken you like in her head like, well, who were
you talking to? Cause if me and you just got
into it and now you're talking about a little pistol
one plus one equals too. So what we're saying right now,
(07:09):
how a were giving it up? And of course now
these you know, the Real Housewives of Atlanta, the real Housewics
of anywhere. These girls gonna get on into it. But
at the end of the day, these are girls with brands, businesses, kids,
coin They not trying to get into all of that.
When you get to that point where you talk about
pulling out a pistol and all that, people are worried
about their actual safety. They gonna do what they need
(07:30):
to do to protect that. So when I saw the
the episode prior to this and I saw Kenye's reaction,
I'm like, I wonder why Kenya didn't, like, I don't know,
anything like legal protection, like involving a lawyer or something,
because that's a very like Housewives boss move bringing attorneys
and figure out like something like a ceasing desister to
try to get her to not film because she felt
(07:51):
threatened something like that. Mind you, if that had happened,
we'd have been known by now, because all of this
stuff was filmed last summer. So keep that little nugget
in your back pocket. Backpocket's back here, Keep that little
nugget in your back pocket. So then in this new episode,
to me, I feel like you get a better understanding
(08:11):
of Brittany. And not to say that what Brittany said
to Kenya about you know, having a pistore or packing
a pistol or whatever, you know what I mean, whatever
the situation was going to be about that. But what
I'm saying is that you kind of see her be like, Okay,
look I got a lot going on in life right now.
She mentioned she just lost her aunt to a stroke,
and the show happened out of nowhere, and then all
(08:32):
of a sudden, her aunt was on like life support,
and then you know her aunt had passed away, and
you know, she's just like, y'all, I was wrong. I
was wrong. I want to apologize, Like, I get it.
I understand why she would be upset. I understand why
she would feel threatened, even if I didn't mean it
like I'm about to pull my pistol out. I get it.
I understand. I'm a woman, blah blah blah like all
that stuff. So that's happening on one side of the
(08:55):
of the production site, right, But then on the other side,
Kenya is like, no oh, I felt through her and
I'm not trying to hear that. And maybe that's why
Kenya reacted the way she did in this episode, because
what she ended up doing because the network, you know,
honestly got to a point where the network did retaliate
after these last two not retaliate, the network did react
(09:18):
after these last two episodes, but instead of Brittany, who
mentioned having the pistol or whatever, doing anything, I mean
anything happening with her, they decided to let Kenya go.
They let Kenya go because Kenya during these spots, Salon
opening after Brittany walks out because she's annoyed that Brittany
even comes there. So Brittany walks out and Kenya starts
(09:39):
showing these like poster presentations. The first there's three of them.
The first one she shows, it's like every single time
she brings out one of it gets worse and worse.
First one she shows it is her talking about, you know,
who was this girl? Who was Brittany because you know
she's I guess had a lot of plastic surgery to
her face allegedly, and you know those type of things.
(10:00):
So there's all of the photos of the before and
after type of vibe. Then the second one it's like,
you know, I'm there must be a photos of Brittany
in like these alleged music videos, and Kenya's like, oh,
she was a video ho see, I was a video girl.
This is Kenya. I was a video girl. I got
paid for the videos. I was a video vix and
we know, like we've seen Kenya and like jay Z's
(10:22):
videos and stuff like that, but she basically was seeing
like girl, you was low budget, Like you can't sit
with me. I'm the queen. Period. Then the third poster,
baby Kenya brings out this poster with this girl and
these photos of this girl on there. Y'all know that
this girl is on there. She was putting a man's
private partner, her Monde. And again, all of this we
knew about because it was such a big deal because
(10:43):
basically the network looked at this as Kenya releasing revenge porn,
which is a crime, and they had to fire, and
not fire, they had to suspend Kenya for the rest
of the season. So after this episode she no longer
filmed whatsoever. Now after so, I've been reporting on this
a ton, a whole ton, And when it first came out,
(11:04):
Kenya like really played as if she I don't know,
like it was weird. It was almost like as if
she was saying she didn't do or didn't like she
was posting things like believe half of what you see
and none of what you hear something like that, like
kind of giving it up, like like maybe the story
might have been spun not to her benefit in the
wrong way that made her look, you know, crazier, and
made the situation look crazier than it was. After watching this,
(11:27):
there's nowhey around what she chose to do. Like even
in the episode Porsche walks out, a lot of the
girls walk out because they're like, yo, bro, you took
it too far. And she's doing it at the spot opening.
It's like you in here talking about you both this
for your daughter, this is something for you to pass
down to your daughter, and blah blah blah, and then
you do this here and she's saying that, like, you know,
she felt right, and she felt like somebody was coming
for her, trying to take food out of her daughter's mouth.
(11:48):
It was a bit much for me. I'm not even
gonna lie to y'all, it was a bit much for me.
Andy Cohen has come out and reacted to it, and
Kenya was not happy about that. Kenya had a very
lengthy message from Andy Cohen in response to what he
had to say and the fact that there is a hole.
There's a whole Justice for Kenya movement happening right now
from the Real Housewives of Atlanta fans. They feel like
(12:09):
Kenya was unjustly suspended, and there's other people who feel like,
you know, even if she was gonna be suspended, there
should have been more action taken against Brittany because this
was a reaction to something. But we're gonna talk about
that nugget. We're gonna talk about Indy Cowen's response to
whether that was right or wrong on the Breakfast Club.
But back to what we're talking about here, I think
it was too much. I do. I get it. I
(12:29):
get the antics of the show. I understand, you know
how the antics rub up your character, rub up your
you know, your positioning on the show, and you know,
you got the peach and you're the O G girl,
whether you don't have the peach or not, or like
you know, I understand all of that stuff. But I
just think at this point, Kenya has been doing this
for a really long time. I think that one of
the things that Kenya should know boy now is that
(12:52):
you gotta protect the brand by any means. And I
think she thought she was protecting the brand by being
the person that like came on on top and like
you know what I mean, like I'm gonna go low
because you went low, I'm gonna go lower. But it
didn't make her look good. Like I was watching it,
and I'm like, it's not even given, like clap back,
Oh you did that, Kenya, it's given, girl, you look
dumb as hell. Kenya let that girl trick her out
(13:15):
her spot. Hate that for Kenya, but what's done is done.
I do think that there should have been something and
I don't know if there was a conversations behind the
scenes or what, but like, I do think it's weird
that somebody can mention they got a pistol after you
just got done arguing with them and like just carry
on about their business. That is kind of crazy. One
hundred percent. That is crazy, y'all. Let me know how
y'all feel. If y'all have been following this situation with
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Kenya Moore and Brittany from the Real Housewives of Atlanta,
do you feel like Kenya should have been suspended and
definitely for the rest of the season. They haven't said
that she can't come back, but there has been no
announcement about her coming back, y'all. I mean, I know
I want her back, but do y'all think she's gonna
actually want to come back? Because there's also the conversation
(13:56):
now spiraling that you know that Candy has started and
about the network just not protecting their stars Normally, my
girl can tour on tour on Twirl and you know
what I mean, Clocket, But that was a really big
misstep on her part. It just doesn't look good. It
doesn't re well off of the show. I wonder how
it has affected her off of the show with like
brand deals and endorsements and things of that nature. Yeah,
(14:18):
so y'all let me know what y'all think. All right,
So second story, we now are gonna go to Lizzo.
So Lizzo has been, you know, moving around. She's been
sitting down with different people having conversations about her recent
weight loss. She lost a ton of weight. If y'all
have not seen Lizzo in recent I would say like
(14:41):
recent weeks. It's been like a couple months now, but
in recent weeks, please go take a look at Lizzo.
She looks amazing. But one of the biggest things that
she's been having conversations about, uh, you know, when it
comes to like change and things and how they've affected
her life differently, the changes is her mental and how
she dealt with her mental health after wanting to commit
(15:01):
suicide and things just being in a very dark place
for her. So she was on the J. S. Shetty podcast.
I love this podcast, by the way, I feel like
they sit and they have really in depth conversations. And
I watched the conversation in Fuol. I do think that
there are parts of it where I was like, okay,
little girl. And earlier when I watched it and I
used the word insufferable, I was like a little bit
of this was like all right, girl. But I think
(15:24):
it's because maybe I'm hearing her tell the same stories
multiple times over and over and over. I don't know,
but what I could appreciate, let's talk about that. What
I could appreciate from this conversation was the honesty, and
she got really honest about Okay. So she retold the
story about when she was out in La at the concert.
And this was right after all that lawsuit stuff had
draws when you know, her employees claimed that she was
(15:45):
like a horrible boss and that she'd allegedly been calling
people fat and just been really evil and nasty toward
the people that were working with her. And I remember
when that lawsuit dropped, she had spoke. I think she
released like one statement, but she didn't really say much
and you didn't really see her like nothing like at all.
And Lizo was so hot, like Lizo was everywhere with
(16:07):
that damn flute in neswork everywhere, big brands all over her,
like you know what I mean, performing all the time,
and it was like everything kind of just like simmered
down and she kind of went away. And then it
got to a point where she started posting things that
were very dark on Instagram, like and it happened a
couple of times where she would post things and it
would make people be like yo, she alright, like she
(16:28):
talking about she wontn't be here no more type vibes,
like what's going on? And you just knew she wasn't okay.
She talked about during that time, just she had already scheduled,
because that's just how business works. When you're in music.
There's a time when you're really really really really on
and you're going, you're going, you're performing, the music is
out your press, you're pressed, and then there's a time
(16:48):
where you got to make the music to then make
the money to go go go to perform, to do
the press to you know what I mean. So she
was in her phase of like I'm taking a step back,
I'm going I'm secluding myself. We're making the music, and
then all of the lawsuit, allegation things dropped, so she
had already decided to kind of go, you know, out
of the country a little mia all those things. But
(17:11):
I think that it made it look crazier. Even though,
to be honest with you, if I'm being real honest,
and I've been doing this for a while, when allegations
and stuff come out against people you kind of know,
and you get the sense when people are like not
going to be able to recover from it. Fully, I
didn't think that Lizzo was completely done. I did think
that it was going to be difficult for her to
(17:31):
come back out of it because she was going to
have to address it. And again, Lizzo was the fun, bubbly,
flute twerking front. I never realized that. At no point
in Lizzo's career am I ever seeing her sit down
and do hard interviews, not in like a controversial the
world doesn't like you, so now you guys some of
(17:52):
this podcast and bury your soul, you know what I mean,
and feed the media different things so that you can
rebut headlines. Never that. I just didn't know how she
would come up on the other side of that because
of the way that her brand had been set up,
and when she was on Jay Shutty, she said the
reason why she had gotten in such that dark space
was because the brand that I'm telling you all about
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the way that I just explained how I looked at her,
where everything was basically so curated, so perfect, so jolly,
so fun, so music. It was a caricature. And when
that lawsuit happened and she didn't have the friends that
she thought she had around her, and a lot of
people she loved around her were not good people and
things were happening, she couldn't live in that character anymore
(18:35):
because now it doesn't work because now you have all
these claims true or not, their allegations, but now they're
out there and people want answers. People want to know, like, yo,
what's going on? It this really happened. Please go listen
to Lizzle on J Shetty podcast. It was a really
good conversation. She says she didn't know what to do
at that point because she could not be the character anymore.
So it forced her to really take the time to
go away and to figure out who the hell she was,
(18:59):
and that is my prayer every single day. I did
an interview with Carlos King. Make sure you guys gonna
check out that interview with me and Carlos King. It
is now live on his YouTube channel. But I said
that in my interview, and that's I felt litzough when
she said this, Like I would. I every day I
pray to God, like, yo, just keep me doing the work,
like I don't wanna get caught up in the the
(19:19):
it to Lauren la Rosa, like it's it's cause it's
not that for me. For me, it's like, Yo, this
is work. I take it serious. This is how I
feed myself, this is how I'm able to help my family.
It's cool. I love storytelling. It's a passion, you know
what I mean, It's a God given gift and a
passion to be able to do what I'm doing and
tell stories. But I don't ever want to do it
through a character like I wanna just really be out here,
(19:42):
I mean a little guarded a bit like I'm learning
how to you know what I mean, Like keep a
couple of things to myself, but give y'all me for real,
and and and intertwine to work and still be able
to like keep going off of that, because when you
lose the character, like you lose everything. I don't want that,
and that's what happened with Lizzo, And Lizzo says that
like during that time, because it was so dark for her,
(20:03):
she was dark and other people saw that. There's no
way that other people didn't see that. She talked about
social media and how social media like, really, you know
what I mean, you start to have these thoughts of
yourself based on what other people are saying that social media,
you know what I mean. The stuff is that's a
whole different beasts of its own. And like she says,
there were days where she was like, girl, just kill yourself.
(20:25):
Won't nobody care? They hate you right now anyway, So
she had to really build herself back up away from
Lizzo with the flute in the music. It's a really
great conversation. Please go take a watch. It's on the
j Shaddy podcast. Yeah, let me know what resonates with
you guys from that. I enjoyed the conversation and I
hope you guys have enjoyed this conversation. I'm Laura le
(20:46):
Rosa Again. At the end of the day, there's always
a lot to talk about. So every time y'all join
me here right on here, right here, right here, every
single time, I'm always ferialed. I always appreciate you, guys,
your homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
And I'll see you in my next episode. Mm hm
Speaks to the Plannet. I go by the name of
Charlamagne of God and guess what, I can't wait to
see y'all at the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival.
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got the R and B Money Podcast with taking Jay Valentine.
We got the Women of All Podcasts with Saray Jake Roberts,
(00:22):
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there with her next sports podcast and the Trap Nerds
podcast with more to be announced. And of course it's
bigger than podcasts. We're bringing the Black Effect Marketplace with
black owned businesses plus the food truck court to keep
you fed while you visit us. All right, listen, you
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Choice. I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about
everything and everybody, you know, if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren came in hot. All righty y'all, we are back.
Agame We are in week two of the latest with
Lauren the Road the podcast and you know, a daily podcast.
It's a hustle, it's a grind. But I mean, this
is what I do. I literally sit on my phone
(01:07):
live and breathe, text, talk, call, reach out, email about
you know, entertainment, news and pop culture stuff all day
long up until a certain point. I will cut it
off at some point because I'd be like, all right,
I gotta eat, I gotta you know what I mean.
But I mean I say that to say it's ongoing,
so this is not hard to do. What has been
the challenge in this new phase in life with dropping
the podcast and you know us rolling out the Ladies
(01:30):
with Laura la Rosa, the breakfast club iteration of it,
and I do a show with BT called BT Talks,
has been balance of life. My mom called me today
and she was like, hey, what you doing for She
called me twice and I was on a zoom call
with my assistant and I answered and I'm like, hey, mam,
you alright And she was like, yeah, I'm fine, what
you're doing. You don't call me no more? And I'm like,
(01:51):
that's the third time. She told me that this week
and the way I'm set up with my mom and
my grandmam, I talk to them every single day. If
they don't hear from me, they're like, what the hell
is going on? Sometimes my grandmother will be like, oh,
she's busy, So she'll call my mom and be like, oh,
did you talk to Lolo? That's my family nickname, So
y'all family now, because y'all don't y'all know my nickname.
She'd be like, hey, have you talked the Lolo? And
my mom will tell her like, oh, yeah, I talk
(02:12):
to her. She was doing such and such and such
and such. So my grandma would just let it rock
because she's like, yo, you're running around, you doing so much.
My mom ain't letting nothing rock at all. She want
all the smoke. She wants to talk to me every day.
She wants to know why she's not talking to me
every day. She wants to know, you know, if I'm
doing all this work, am I being paid with the coin?
Looking like baby Lois? That's my mom's name. She don't
(02:34):
play no games at all. But I think, you know,
I've been thinking a lot about today, just feeling kind
of guilty for that, and guilty for the fact that
just within his last two weeks, my time, this last
couple of months, my time has changed because I'm getting
busier and things are moving, and I just wanted to
be moved slow about it and take on one project
at a time and then bring other things in. And
(02:56):
then now everything kind of hit at once. Everything I
was slowly taking on that one time. It's like it's
all it's all on the table, and we ain't even
nothing on the table. We ain't living, no money on
the table. So you know, I'm here and I'm doing it.
But I'm not able to go home to Delaware and
just sit and play cards and eat crabs with my
grandmom as much as I was before. I can't sit
on the phone on the phone all day with my
(03:17):
mom as much as I was doing before. And I
know that they have such a dependency on me, especially
because I'm my mom and my grandmother's caretaker. So even
though I don't live in Delaware, me my brother, we
make sure that they're straight, they're older, they've both gone
through health stuff, so there is a really strong dependency there,
especially because of their age, but especially because you know,
(03:37):
like medically. They've just been through things where it's helping
that we me and my brother know more than they
do right now. So you know, I'm making sure you know,
they're eating how they're supposed to eat. They got help
in the home. The homes are being cleaned and all
that good stuff, even when I can't be there. So
that's that's what I've been figuring out so much of.
(03:58):
But you know, just feeling guilty and I can't show
up and do those things myself anymore. As much as
I used to cooking the dinner, hanging out, just playing cards,
just chilling. I'd rather be there and get yelled at
about not spend enough time than being asked when are
you coming back, and it's like, oh my god, and yeah.
So when my mom called me and said that today,
I was like, oh, I was feeling good because today
was my first day. We're all like up. It energized
(04:20):
and I slept early last night. And then she called
me and I'm like, but it's still not enough. I
gotta figure out the balance of life now and work.
So personally, that's some of the things that I, you know, today,
have been dealing with. But I am more refreshed, so
at least I have the clear space of mine to
do so, so I thank God for that. But we
gonna get on into some stories. It's Laura l Rosa.
(04:41):
This is the latest with Laura l Rosa. And you
guys know, despite whatever is happening in my life, whether
I'm figuring out family, work, whatever, I'm always gonna be
the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and
everybody and what I don't know, baby, I will pick
up the phone, reach out and figure it out. Okay,
so let's get on into some things up. First, I
wanted to talk about Real Housewives of Atlanta, and I
(05:04):
just fresh off of watching the new episode of Real
Housewives of Atlanta. The episode is called is titled about
last Night. Now, for those of you guys who are
Real Housewives fans, you'll know that we were waiting, all
of the Real Housewives of Atlanta fans were waiting for this
episode because this is the episode that is Kenya Moore's
(05:25):
last episode for season sixteen, unless well for season sixteen
for sure and potentially in the franchise, unless she decides
to come back or they allow her back, like we
still don't know the answer to that. So on about
last night this episode. The main focus of this episode
news wise has been the fact that this was Kenya
Moore's last episode for the season. The reason why this
(05:46):
was our last episode is because Kenyamore opened the Kenyamore Hairspot.
She owned Kenya Moore hair care product line and decided
to put it in the actual hairspot in Atlanta where
you could come get your hair done. You know, all
the all the spa things, but it's all based around
her product. So during this episode and at the opening
(06:06):
of that spa, her and another girl from the show,
a girl named Brittany who is a newcomer to the show.
Y'all know, Kenya Moore is a OG. She's been there
since the original Real Housewives of Atlanta days, back when
Nini was there and all that good of stuff. So
of course, when you are the OG on a you know,
a show, a reality show like Real Housewives, the new
girls gotta come for you. It's kind of like a
rite of passage. It shows how they can hang or
(06:27):
if they can't, you know what I'm saying, And it
also can elevate their peach or lack thereof. So they're
at the hairspot opening, and Kenya and this girl, Brittany
have actually had a very weird exchange the episode prior
the episode prior that at this like special dinner thing,
and you know, they kind of get into it over
(06:47):
a question that was asked her on like a round
table type game, and you know, Brittany begins to talk
about when they're leaving out after they've gotten into a
Brittany mentions like a pistol and some whips that she
owned that she you know, she still be packing and
ken you like in her head like, well, who were
you talking to? Cause if me and you just got
into it and now you're talking about a little pistol
one plus one equals too. So what we're saying right now,
(07:09):
how a were giving it up? And of course now
these you know, the Real Housewives of Atlanta, the real Housewics
of anywhere. These girls gonna get on into it. But
at the end of the day, these are girls with brands, businesses, kids,
coin They not trying to get into all of that.
When you get to that point where you talk about
pulling out a pistol and all that, people are worried
about their actual safety. They gonna do what they need
(07:30):
to do to protect that. So when I saw the
the episode prior to this and I saw Kenye's reaction,
I'm like, I wonder why Kenya didn't, like, I don't know,
anything like legal protection, like involving a lawyer or something,
because that's a very like Housewives boss move bringing attorneys
and figure out like something like a ceasing desister to
try to get her to not film because she felt
(07:51):
threatened something like that. Mind you, if that had happened,
we'd have been known by now, because all of this
stuff was filmed last summer. So keep that little nugget
in your back pocket. Backpocket's back here, Keep that little
nugget in your back pocket. So then in this new episode,
to me, I feel like you get a better understanding
(08:11):
of Brittany. And not to say that what Brittany said
to Kenya about you know, having a pistore or packing
a pistol or whatever, you know what I mean, whatever
the situation was going to be about that. But what
I'm saying is that you kind of see her be like, Okay,
look I got a lot going on in life right now.
She mentioned she just lost her aunt to a stroke,
and the show happened out of nowhere, and then all
(08:32):
of a sudden, her aunt was on like life support,
and then you know her aunt had passed away, and
you know, she's just like, y'all, I was wrong. I
was wrong. I want to apologize, Like, I get it.
I understand why she would be upset. I understand why
she would feel threatened, even if I didn't mean it
like I'm about to pull my pistol out. I get it.
I understand. I'm a woman, blah blah blah like all
that stuff. So that's happening on one side of the
(08:55):
of the production site, right, But then on the other side,
Kenya is like, no oh, I felt through her and
I'm not trying to hear that. And maybe that's why
Kenya reacted the way she did in this episode, because
what she ended up doing because the network, you know,
honestly got to a point where the network did retaliate
after these last two not retaliate, the network did react
(09:18):
after these last two episodes, but instead of Brittany, who
mentioned having the pistol or whatever, doing anything, I mean
anything happening with her, they decided to let Kenya go.
They let Kenya go because Kenya during these spots, Salon
opening after Brittany walks out because she's annoyed that Brittany
even comes there. So Brittany walks out and Kenya starts
(09:39):
showing these like poster presentations. The first there's three of them.
The first one she shows, it's like every single time
she brings out one of it gets worse and worse.
First one she shows it is her talking about, you know,
who was this girl? Who was Brittany because you know
she's I guess had a lot of plastic surgery to
her face allegedly, and you know those type of things.
(10:00):
So there's all of the photos of the before and
after type of vibe. Then the second one it's like,
you know, I'm there must be a photos of Brittany
in like these alleged music videos, and Kenya's like, oh,
she was a video ho see, I was a video girl.
This is Kenya. I was a video girl. I got
paid for the videos. I was a video vix and
we know, like we've seen Kenya and like jay Z's
(10:22):
videos and stuff like that, but she basically was seeing
like girl, you was low budget, Like you can't sit
with me. I'm the queen. Period. Then the third poster,
baby Kenya brings out this poster with this girl and
these photos of this girl on there. Y'all know that
this girl is on there. She was putting a man's
private partner, her Monde. And again, all of this we
knew about because it was such a big deal because
(10:43):
basically the network looked at this as Kenya releasing revenge porn,
which is a crime, and they had to fire, and
not fire, they had to suspend Kenya for the rest
of the season. So after this episode she no longer
filmed whatsoever. Now after so, I've been reporting on this
a ton, a whole ton, And when it first came out,
(11:04):
Kenya like really played as if she I don't know,
like it was weird. It was almost like as if
she was saying she didn't do or didn't like she
was posting things like believe half of what you see
and none of what you hear something like that, like
kind of giving it up, like like maybe the story
might have been spun not to her benefit in the
wrong way that made her look, you know, crazier, and
made the situation look crazier than it was. After watching this,
(11:27):
there's nowhey around what she chose to do. Like even
in the episode Porsche walks out, a lot of the
girls walk out because they're like, yo, bro, you took
it too far. And she's doing it at the spot opening.
It's like you in here talking about you both this
for your daughter, this is something for you to pass
down to your daughter, and blah blah blah, and then
you do this here and she's saying that, like, you know,
she felt right, and she felt like somebody was coming
for her, trying to take food out of her daughter's mouth.
(11:48):
It was a bit much for me. I'm not even
gonna lie to y'all, it was a bit much for me.
Andy Cohen has come out and reacted to it, and
Kenya was not happy about that. Kenya had a very
lengthy message from Andy Cohen in response to what he
had to say and the fact that there is a hole.
There's a whole Justice for Kenya movement happening right now
from the Real Housewives of Atlanta fans. They feel like
(12:09):
Kenya was unjustly suspended, and there's other people who feel like,
you know, even if she was gonna be suspended, there
should have been more action taken against Brittany because this
was a reaction to something. But we're gonna talk about
that nugget. We're gonna talk about Indy Cowen's response to
whether that was right or wrong on the Breakfast Club.
But back to what we're talking about here, I think
it was too much. I do. I get it. I
(12:29):
get the antics of the show. I understand, you know
how the antics rub up your character, rub up your
you know, your positioning on the show, and you know,
you got the peach and you're the O G girl,
whether you don't have the peach or not, or like
you know, I understand all of that stuff. But I
just think at this point, Kenya has been doing this
for a really long time. I think that one of
the things that Kenya should know boy now is that
(12:52):
you gotta protect the brand by any means. And I
think she thought she was protecting the brand by being
the person that like came on on top and like
you know what I mean, like I'm gonna go low
because you went low, I'm gonna go lower. But it
didn't make her look good. Like I was watching it,
and I'm like, it's not even given, like clap back,
Oh you did that, Kenya, it's given, girl, you look
dumb as hell. Kenya let that girl trick her out
(13:15):
her spot. Hate that for Kenya, but what's done is done.
I do think that there should have been something and
I don't know if there was a conversations behind the
scenes or what, but like, I do think it's weird
that somebody can mention they got a pistol after you
just got done arguing with them and like just carry
on about their business. That is kind of crazy. One
hundred percent. That is crazy, y'all. Let me know how
y'all feel. If y'all have been following this situation with
(13:36):
Kenya Moore and Brittany from the Real Housewives of Atlanta,
do you feel like Kenya should have been suspended and
definitely for the rest of the season. They haven't said
that she can't come back, but there has been no
announcement about her coming back, y'all. I mean, I know
I want her back, but do y'all think she's gonna
actually want to come back? Because there's also the conversation
(13:56):
now spiraling that you know that Candy has started and
about the network just not protecting their stars Normally, my
girl can tour on tour on Twirl and you know
what I mean, Clocket, But that was a really big
misstep on her part. It just doesn't look good. It
doesn't re well off of the show. I wonder how
it has affected her off of the show with like
brand deals and endorsements and things of that nature. Yeah,
(14:18):
so y'all let me know what y'all think. All right,
So second story, we now are gonna go to Lizzo.
So Lizzo has been, you know, moving around. She's been
sitting down with different people having conversations about her recent
weight loss. She lost a ton of weight. If y'all
have not seen Lizzo in recent I would say like
(14:41):
recent weeks. It's been like a couple months now, but
in recent weeks, please go take a look at Lizzo.
She looks amazing. But one of the biggest things that
she's been having conversations about, uh, you know, when it
comes to like change and things and how they've affected
her life differently, the changes is her mental and how
she dealt with her mental health after wanting to commit
(15:01):
suicide and things just being in a very dark place
for her. So she was on the J. S. Shetty podcast.
I love this podcast, by the way, I feel like
they sit and they have really in depth conversations. And
I watched the conversation in Fuol. I do think that
there are parts of it where I was like, okay,
little girl. And earlier when I watched it and I
used the word insufferable, I was like a little bit
of this was like all right, girl. But I think
(15:24):
it's because maybe I'm hearing her tell the same stories
multiple times over and over and over. I don't know,
but what I could appreciate, let's talk about that. What
I could appreciate from this conversation was the honesty, and
she got really honest about Okay. So she retold the
story about when she was out in La at the concert.
And this was right after all that lawsuit stuff had
draws when you know, her employees claimed that she was
(15:45):
like a horrible boss and that she'd allegedly been calling
people fat and just been really evil and nasty toward
the people that were working with her. And I remember
when that lawsuit dropped, she had spoke. I think she
released like one statement, but she didn't really say much
and you didn't really see her like nothing like at all.
And Lizo was so hot, like Lizo was everywhere with
(16:07):
that damn flute in neswork everywhere, big brands all over her,
like you know what I mean, performing all the time,
and it was like everything kind of just like simmered
down and she kind of went away. And then it
got to a point where she started posting things that
were very dark on Instagram, like and it happened a
couple of times where she would post things and it
would make people be like yo, she alright, like she
(16:28):
talking about she wontn't be here no more type vibes,
like what's going on? And you just knew she wasn't okay.
She talked about during that time, just she had already scheduled,
because that's just how business works. When you're in music.
There's a time when you're really really really really on
and you're going, you're going, you're performing, the music is
out your press, you're pressed, and then there's a time
(16:48):
where you got to make the music to then make
the money to go go go to perform, to do
the press to you know what I mean. So she
was in her phase of like I'm taking a step back,
I'm going I'm secluding myself. We're making the music, and
then all of the lawsuit, allegation things dropped, so she
had already decided to kind of go, you know, out
of the country a little mia all those things. But
(17:11):
I think that it made it look crazier. Even though,
to be honest with you, if I'm being real honest,
and I've been doing this for a while, when allegations
and stuff come out against people you kind of know,
and you get the sense when people are like not
going to be able to recover from it. Fully, I
didn't think that Lizzo was completely done. I did think
that it was going to be difficult for her to
(17:31):
come back out of it because she was going to
have to address it. And again, Lizzo was the fun, bubbly,
flute twerking front. I never realized that. At no point
in Lizzo's career am I ever seeing her sit down
and do hard interviews, not in like a controversial the
world doesn't like you, so now you guys some of
(17:52):
this podcast and bury your soul, you know what I mean,
and feed the media different things so that you can
rebut headlines. Never that. I just didn't know how she
would come up on the other side of that because
of the way that her brand had been set up,
and when she was on Jay Shutty, she said the
reason why she had gotten in such that dark space
was because the brand that I'm telling you all about
(18:13):
the way that I just explained how I looked at her,
where everything was basically so curated, so perfect, so jolly,
so fun, so music. It was a caricature. And when
that lawsuit happened and she didn't have the friends that
she thought she had around her, and a lot of
people she loved around her were not good people and
things were happening, she couldn't live in that character anymore
(18:35):
because now it doesn't work because now you have all
these claims true or not, their allegations, but now they're
out there and people want answers. People want to know, like, yo,
what's going on? It this really happened. Please go listen
to Lizzle on J Shetty podcast. It was a really
good conversation. She says she didn't know what to do
at that point because she could not be the character anymore.
So it forced her to really take the time to
go away and to figure out who the hell she was,
(18:59):
and that is my prayer every single day. I did
an interview with Carlos King. Make sure you guys gonna
check out that interview with me and Carlos King. It
is now live on his YouTube channel. But I said
that in my interview, and that's I felt litzough when
she said this, Like I would. I every day I
pray to God, like, yo, just keep me doing the work,
like I don't wanna get caught up in the the
(19:19):
it to Lauren la Rosa, like it's it's cause it's
not that for me. For me, it's like, Yo, this
is work. I take it serious. This is how I
feed myself, this is how I'm able to help my family.
It's cool. I love storytelling. It's a passion, you know
what I mean, It's a God given gift and a
passion to be able to do what I'm doing and
tell stories. But I don't ever want to do it
through a character like I wanna just really be out here,
(19:42):
I mean a little guarded a bit like I'm learning
how to you know what I mean, Like keep a
couple of things to myself, but give y'all me for real,
and and and intertwine to work and still be able
to like keep going off of that, because when you
lose the character, like you lose everything. I don't want that,
and that's what happened with Lizzo, And Lizzo says that
like during that time, because it was so dark for her,
(20:03):
she was dark and other people saw that. There's no
way that other people didn't see that. She talked about
social media and how social media like, really, you know
what I mean, you start to have these thoughts of
yourself based on what other people are saying that social media,
you know what I mean. The stuff is that's a
whole different beasts of its own. And like she says,
there were days where she was like, girl, just kill yourself.
(20:25):
Won't nobody care? They hate you right now anyway, So
she had to really build herself back up away from
Lizzo with the flute in the music. It's a really
great conversation. Please go take a watch. It's on the
j Shaddy podcast. Yeah, let me know what resonates with
you guys from that. I enjoyed the conversation and I
hope you guys have enjoyed this conversation. I'm Laura le
(20:46):
Rosa Again. At the end of the day, there's always
a lot to talk about. So every time y'all join
me here right on here, right here, right here, every
single time, I'm always ferialed. I always appreciate you, guys,
your homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody.
And I'll see you in my next episode. Mm hm
Host
Loren LoRosa
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